Pleasant Valley Mennonite Church (Hills, Iowa, USA)

Pleasant Valley Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), some­times known as Sandtown, located 8 miles south of Iowa City, Iowa, and 2½ miles southeast of Hills, was organized as a congregation 23 July 1956. In 1948 the East Union and Lower Deer Creek congre­gations began a rural mission in the area, using an abandoned Methodist church, which is still used as a meetinghouse. The membership in 1958 was 20. Herman J. Smucker was pastor of the church.